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20th-century German journalists

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Rosa Luxemburg
Polish-German Marxist revolutionary (1871–1919)
Theodor Heuss
German journalist and politician (1884-1963)
Carl von Ossietzky
German journalist, author, pacifist and recipient of the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize (1889–1938)
Richard Sorge
Soviet spy in Germany and Japan (1895-1944)
Kurt Tucholsky
Jewish-German journalist, satirist and writer (1890–1935)
Walther Funk
German economist, Nazi politician and convicted war criminal (1890-1960)
Victor Klemperer
German philologist (1881-1960)
Alice Schwarzer
German journalist, publisher, and feminist
Joachim Fest
German historian (1926–2006)
Siegfried Kracauer
German writer, journalist, sociologist, cultural critic, and film theorist (1889-1966)
Erich Mühsam
German-Jewish anarchist writer (1878–1934)
Sebastian Haffner
German journalist and author (1907–1999)
Bernhard Kellermann
German author (1879-1951)
Günter Wallraff
German writer and journalist
Wolfgang Kapp
Prussian civil servant and journalist. Nominal leader of the Kapp-Putsch (1858-1922)
Axel Springer
German mass media owner
Joseph Berchtold
Nazi officer, Second commander of the SS (1897–1962)
C. W. Ceram
German journalist (1915–1972)
Karl Harrer
German journalist and politician (1890-1926)
Rudolf Augstein
German journalist (1923-2002)
Günther Jauch
German television presenter, producer, and journalist
Bogna Koreng
Sorbian presenter and television presenter
Marion Gräfin Dönhoff
German journalist (1909–2002)
Maximilian Harden
German journalist (1861–1927)
Fritz Gerlich
German historian and journalist (1883–1934)
Anja Niedringhaus
German photojournalist (1965–2014)
Robert Jungk
Austrian publicist and writer (1913–1994)
Brigitte Hamann
Austrian-German historian (1940–2016)
Norbert Haug
German journalist and former motorsport manager of Mercedes-Benz
Hellmuth Karasek
German journalist and literary critic (1934–2015)
Peter Scholl-Latour
German-French journalist and author (1924-2014)
Marta Hillers
German journalist (1911–2001)
Kurt Hiller
German essayist and activist (1885–1972)
Norbert Jacques
Luxembourgish novelist, journalist, and screenwriter (1880-1954)
Götz Aly
German journalist, historian and social scientist
Henryk Broder
German journalist
Jürgen Roth
German opinion journalist (1945–2017)
Peretz Bernstein
Israeli politician (1890-1971)
Udo Ulfkotte
German journalist and conspiracy theorist (1960–2017)
Doris Schröder-Köpf
German politician and journalist
Frank Arnau
writer (1894-1976)
Konrad Heiden
German journalist and historian (1901–1966)
Rupert Neudeck
German journalist and human rights activist (1939–2016)
Eugen Kogon
German journalist, sociologist, professor and Holocaust survivor (1903-1987)
Siegfried Jacobsohn
German writer (1881–1926)
Wolfgang Harich
German journalist and philosopher (1923–1995)
Hans Dominik
German science fiction author, journalist, engineer (1872–1945)
Michael F. Feldkamp
German historian and journalist
Alice Rühle-Gerstel
German-Jewish writer, psychologist
Augustin Souchy
German anarchist (1892–1984)
Jochen Klepper
German writer (1903–1942)
Theodor Wolff
German writer (1868-1943)
Karl Maron
German journalist (1903-1975)
Robert Kurz
Marxist philosopher, social critic and journalist (1943–2012)
Josef Ganz
German car designer (1898–1967)
Sandra Maischberger
German journalist
Gerd Heidemann
German journalist and convicted fraudster (1931–2024)
Helmut Rohde
German politician (SPD) (1925-2016)
Heinrich Eduard Jacob
German writer (1889–1967)
Carolin Emcke
German journalist; Peace Prize of the German Book Trade 2016